FReeper Canteen - Tunes For Our Troops - 29 March 2014

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[Publius]

ROCKUMENTARY: MARCH 29, 1969

#4 – The 5th Dimension: “Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In”

”Hair” had two incarnations. The first off-Broadway version had a genuine plot, while the second Broadway version was more of a revue, with the plot playing second fiddle. It marked a major change in the American musical theater.

When the Broadway version opened, Gerome Ragni and James Rado, who were two of the three people behind the musical, came to Philadelphia, dropped in at my little college station, and I managed to tape an interview with them. Rado was a nice guy, but Ragni was put off by my ROTC uniform and acted like an asshole. Rado later apologized and said that Ragni always acted that way. When Ragni’s drug use killed him in 1976, I didn’t shed so much as a tear.

When the Fifth Dimension’s producers recorded “Aquarius”, they realized that it wasn’t enough for a record, so they coupled it with the finale from the musical, the chorus “Let the Sunshine In”.

The 5th Dimension: “Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In”

Here is a bonus track. I regarded the coupling of the two songs as an artistic failure. In the musical, the final song, “The Flesh Failures”, leads into the chorus when you least expect it, and the sudden 8-part harmony is overwhelming. My hair, which I still had then, stood up when I saw this done live. The Fifth Dimension could never get close to the original.

”Hair” original cast: “The Flesh Failures

[luvie]

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GREGG KARUKAS~Azure Dreaming

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[HiTech RedNeck]

Trippy, mon. Is this you as the radio station guy?

[Publius]

I did five years of college radio in Philadelphia and two years professionally in Seattle. My radio career could be summarized as a meteoric rise followed by an equally meteoric fall.

[luvie]

Ah, the hippie era! It was an interesting time, for sure!

[luvie]

MY ARTIST OF THE WEEK--

GREGG KARUKAS/Chieli Minucci~First Love

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[Publius]

As I said last week, the hippies were hogging all the sex back then, and I never forgave them for that.

That lady out of my past (1969) and I made contact thanks to the magic of the Internet, and she spent a week and a half with me in September. It was the longest I had ever been around a hippy, and it was fun. When her son joined the Marines and her daughter joined the Air Force, it was a bitter pill for her to swallow, but she got a Marine tattoo on her back with a little Air Force flourish on it. She rolled with the punch.

[Publius]

ROCKUMENTARY: MARCH 29, 1969

#35 – The Cowsills: “Hair”

This band ended up as the prototype for the Partridge Family, and it’s good that we can laugh at how silly we were 45 years ago.

The Cowsills: “Hair”

[luvie]

MY ARTIST OF THE WEEK--

GREGG KARUKASShelby Flint~I Keep It To Myself

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[MS.BEHAVIN]

~~Tunes For The Troops~~

The Doobie Brothers~What A Fool Believes

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[luvie]

I’m glad y’all have made peace with the past and your differences! Hope you get to see more of her. I never did “find” you on FB. LOL!

[Publius]

The first time I heard that song, I thought they were singing, “The white man has the power.”

[Publius]

I sent Ms. B a disk of all the pictures Arlene shot at my place in Georgia, but she could never get the disk to work on her computer.

[luvie]

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GREGG KARUKAS/Jonathan Butler~Time Could Pass

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[luvie]

Well, rats! Because we’re supposed to be going to see her this summer and I could have gotten to see them too! Oh, well....:)

[MS.BEHAVIN]

LOL
The first time I heard Purple Haze,
I thought Hendrix was singing ‘S’cuse me while I kiss this guy”
;0)

[Publius]

ROCKUMENTARY: MARCH 29, 1969

#3 – The Zombies: “Time of the Season”

Rod Argent had never left the UK charts, but it had been four years since he had been heard in the US.

The Zombies: “Time of the Season”

[luvie]

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GREGG KARUKAS~Alligator Alley

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[HiTech RedNeck]

Sorry to hear about the career disappointment. But nothing ventured, nothing gained. I went into music recording and song writing and eventually had to come back to my meat and potatoes which was software engineering when I exhausted my resources with little to show for it. I still do the other, but as a hobby.

[Publius]

Radio was 40 years ago. I spent 30 years in computers and then retired. Radio is a young man’s game.